Boeing company Aurora Flight Sciences has unveiled a flying-wing design with embedded lift fans as its candidate for a DARPA program to build a high-speed vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) X-plane.

When one thinks about military drones they tend to image the largest of them, things like the RQ-4 Global Hawk or the MQ-1 Predator. These are also some of the most powerful presently flying in the ...

HopFlyt has unveiled the Cyclone, a VTOL aircraft using pivoting semicircular channel wings first conceived in 1925 to boost lift and efficiency. Modern digital controls and hybrid propulsion enable ...

The Manta vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) fixed-wing utilizes a Y3 configuration with a tilting rotor design, combining the advantages of multirotor hover capability with the efficient cruising ...

What if urban air taxis could, like birds, vary the configuration of their wings in flight? The answer to such questions could soon become reality through morphing wing technology assisted by ...

Sikorsky’s rotor blown wing is a hybrid-electric flying wing with semi-articulated rotors for control in hover. Credit: Sikorsky Sikorsky is getting a second chance to build an advanced rotorcraft for ...

About a year ago the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) introduced to the world the companies that were tasked with working on something called the AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less ...

Sikorsky has already shown it can make a damn good chopper. Now it’s ready to prove it can make a fleet of futuristic hybrid rotorcraft, too. The American aircraft manufacturer, helmed by aviation ...